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A Quattro Cori: Music for 16 Voices
The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
Schumann Etude Symphoniques Op 13; Fantasie Op 17
From the word go this disc is, sadly, a non-starter in terms of sound and rival versions of the same...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2007
Works for violin and orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Isaac Stern | Seiji Ozawa
Trevor Harvey gave the LP equivalent of Stern's coupling a lukewarm reception and certainly Stern's timbre is but a pale...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986
Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio
Ingenious planning has brought together two little-known Christmas works, each written when its composer was 22 years old (to be...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1988
American Piano Music
This record makes an atmospheric impression immediately with a polished, lyric ''Dreaming'' (from Four Sketches, Op. 15, written in 1892),...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1991
WEBER Clarinet Concerto (Ottensamer)
Andreas Ottensamer | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Mariss Jansons | Yuja Wang
The title ‘Blue Hour’ is meant to convey that post-sunset glow before nightfall and might well conjure up a mood...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2019
Organ of Buckingham Palace Ballroom
Having never been en-knighted, en-nobled nor even en-MBE'd, I have never set foot inside Buckingham Palace. And a weird superstition...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2008
Classical Violin Sonatas
Alexander Markovich | Itamar Golan | Maxim Vengerov
The 18-year-old Siberian-born Maxim Vengerov now lives in Israel. Winner of the 1990 Carl Flesch Competition, he had previously appeared...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1993
German Romantic Arias
Colin Davis | Karita Mattila | Staatskapelle Dresden
Mattila’s new recital is notable for its exploration of some rarities in addition to more familiar repertory in the German...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
Karel Ancerl – Gold Edition, Vol 3
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Josef Suk | Karel Ancerl
These fine recordings have been together on CD before, but this is a new remastering. The sound is certainly uncommonly...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2003
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